Class of '26, in before proctors!

Bold of you , to imagine that by that point in a few decades, that lake still exists.

The issue is too many people don't look at political party plans, they simply adopt a political party as their identity. They are not republican (or democrats!) because GOP propose plan with item 1,2,3, but rather because being republican is part of their identity. Once that happens and facts goes against that political party, it make the brain analyze it as an attack against identity, and use defensive reaction mechanism to protect identity, chief among them wholesale rejection of facts.

This is not only the republican which do that, but republican happens to be associated with right wing / authority / strength as an image (not necessarily a truth just an image) and far more likely currently to have the facts going against them.

They (conspiracy theorist from r/UFOs) take

1) a long period of time (the first "case" is from july 2023)
2) they take various profession and places mashed together
3) various situation mashed together (missing, suicided, murdered, one guy missing stating he did not want to live with his brain deteriorating etc...)
Then suddenly they find out there is a dozen such a case.


The thing is I would be not be surprised if you take so many different places, and people, over so many years, and check for disappearance/murder/suicide you would find similar number, but nobody will make a CT over your random white collar guy.

People act like life expectancies have been getting shorter.

They romanticize historic and prehistoric diets alike, as if they were utopian; as if people somehow intuited what to eat, or else that the constraints of supply somehow shaped digestive evolution like an intelligently designed metabolic symphony of symbiosis. That ignores the plain reality of volatile supplies -- even after the advent of agriculture, but especially before it -- and the reality that evolution is not driven by perfect health or life expectancy; only by surviving long enough to reproduce.

Even if modern diets are "unhealthy" (whatever that means), that doesn't imply that people were eating healthier at any point in the past. In fact, skeletal records clearly show that human existence has been rife with scurvy, rickets, iron deficiency, and stunted growth. Nutritional deficiencies were the norm, not the exception. Now (many people) have abundance, and that presents its own challenges, but the notion of an ideal, historic nutritional baseline is pure fiction. It's turtles all the way down.

LLMs have never been rules-based "agents," and they never will be. They cannot internalize arbitrary guidelines and abide by them unerringly, nor can they make qualitative decisions about which rule(s) to follow in the face of conflict. The nature of attention windows means that models are actively ignoring context, including "rules", which is why they can't follow them, and conflict resolution requires intelligence, which they do not possess, and which even intelligent beings frequently fail to do effectively. Social "error correction" tools for rule-breaking include learning from mistakes, which agents cannot do, and individualized ostracization/segregation (firing, jail, etc.), which is also not something we can do with LLMs.

So the only way to achieve rule-following behavior is to deterministically enforce limits on what LLMs can do, akin to a firewall. This is not exactly straightforward either, especially if you don't have fine-grained enough controls in the first place. For example, you could deterministically remove the capability of an agent to delete emails, but you couldn't easily scope that restriction to only "work emails," for example. They would need to be categorized appropriately, external to the agent, and the agent's control surface would need to thoroughly limit the ability to delete any email tagged as "work", or to change or remove the "work" tag, and ensure that the "work" tag deny rule takes priority over any other "allow" rules, AND prevent the agent from changing the rules by any means.

Essentially, this is an entirely new threat model, where neither agentic privilege nor agentic trust cleanly map to user privilege or user trust. At the same time, the more time spent fine-tuning rules and controls, the less useful agentic automation becomes. At some point you're doing at least as much work as the agent, if not more, and the whole point of "individualized" agentic behavior inherently means that any given set of fine-tuned rules are not broadly applicable. On top of that, the end result of agentic behavior might even be worse than the outcome of human performance to boot, which means more work for worse results.

or international skeptic forum. Argued to death with quite a few bigfoot believer ( all of them pretending they had proof that the filmed creature had a gait which could not be reproduced by human). That should be the nail in the coffin, but as we saw even with the Shroud, believer will continue to make all sort of excuses to continue believing.

Even Texas has something like a 85% Urban population, and commute is in average commute nationwide is 27m (but there are wild variation depending on state (stealing from reddit :https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/191n6gq/oc_average_commute_time_to_work_across_the_usa/). The only really valid issue is resale value, battery price, and the difficulty to stop EV fire. That said I , like you I think, would rather buy an EV and see the advantage in the EV camp.

No frankly, I keep saying people this is not a solution , citing a (IMO minor) negative effect. I am sorry, then what IS your solution ? Mass starvation ? Another modest proposal of eating the children ? If job are being replaced on a massive scale, then the government, responsible for the well being of those citizen OVER the well being of corps, will have to implement *something*. What do you suggest ? Ask people to dig hole in one shift and then the next alternating shift can fill it in, and vice versa ? If the government cannot implement UBI then *something* has to give in : either people mass dying, or another alternative to keep people alive. And if people don't have job because everybody replaceable by any type of AI and robot has been replaced, *who* has the money to buy anything whatsoever ?

In case AI and robot replace massively many job, UBI might not be the best solution, but so far I haven't seen anybody whatsoever propose a viable or morally acceptable alternative solution.

What AI for picture is a very complicated warping/stitching, but not inspiration. Inspiration you can get something nobody ever did before. See all the painting types for example, surrealism, cubism, etc... If you take all realistic/romantic painting of all the years until 1800 and feed an AI, you can let it run until the heat death of the universe , you will never get any cubist painting. It cannot make new stuff, it can only do a very complicated copy paste.

But that is not the case. The governments, in many countries, has for decades manipulated and planned society in a way that WE the person in the mirror can do nothing against. For example the over reliance on car infrastructure in the US. Many of us are simply hostage of the system and have no ways except maybe once every 4 years vote for somebody which will anyway not change that policy, as none of the party want to change it.

The real culprit are not in the mirror. They are linked the one warping the policies, the fossil fuel industry, and the politician which *all* let that happily happens.

I typoed on highway speed in Texas

https://www.reddit.com/r/texas...
Texas is about the same size of France maybe about 30% more due to geometry. It does not takes multiple days to drive through France if you drive through the express ways, unless you use exclusively the very small roads. Texas in width and height is roughly 800 miles, Highway in Texas are 95 mph , so if you manage to only use highway Texas traveling is not DAYS, but rather half a day.

Just never , ever pay attention to the brand. it is easy. Concentrate on the ingredients list, and for similar acceptable list, take the cheapest. If the quality is not good enough, try the middle brand. If it is still not good enough, try another shop or something altogether different. I never buy expansive brand, and yes I have tons of adblocker. Beside the *one* I can't skip (a few big ass paper ads in the street) I haven't seen any advertising whatsoever in 25 years.

I read 128 books last years (so says kindle statistics). I never considered that a virtue , but more like *MY* vice.